Center for Excellence in Learning through Service http://www.berea.edu/celts Just another Berea College site Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:03:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 CELTS Staff and Students Present at Bonner Foundation’s Summer Leadership Institute http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/11/celts-staff-and-students-present-at-bonner-foundations-summer-leadership-institute/ http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/11/celts-staff-and-students-present-at-bonner-foundations-summer-leadership-institute/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:41:27 +0000 James McWhorter http://www.berea.edu/celts/?p=178 Continue reading →]]> The newly redesigned webpage for the Kentucky Campus Compact features courses taught by several Berea faculty, focusing on Berea College’s and CELTS’ commitment to furthering community involvement among students, as well as academics at Berea College. The webpage features courses taught by Adanma Barton, Janice Blythe, Meta Mendel-Reyes, and Mario Nakazawa. Community partner organizations that are featured in these stories include the Berea Community Food Bank, Berea Health Ministry, Clearfork Community Institute, Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition, and Hope’s Wings Domestic Violence Shelter.

This website is part of an on-going project to collect stories of best practices in service-learning in Kentucky.  To read more about the work that CELTS and the Berea faculty are currently supporting in the community through successful service-learning courses, simply click here.

To become more involved in Berea’s service-learning program, or for more information, contact Ashley Cochrane via email. Those interested can also stop by CELTS, located on the second story of the Bruce-Trades Building on Berea College’s campus.

]]> http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/11/celts-staff-and-students-present-at-bonner-foundations-summer-leadership-institute/feed/ 0 CELTS Community Service Programs Honor Volunteers http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/05/celts-community-service-programs-honor-volunteers/ http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/05/celts-community-service-programs-honor-volunteers/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 17:49:51 +0000 James McWhorter http://www.berea.edu/celts/?p=187 Continue reading →]]> On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, the Community Service Programs in CELTS honored the over 200 volunteers who make serving the Berea community possible.  The group was welcomed by President Larry Shinn, who spoke about the importance of giving back to the communities in which you live.  CELTS Student Director, Lilly Belanger, then introduced the different programs and the Student Program Managers. 

As each Program Manger talked about the importance of their specific program to the community, volunteers were asked to stand and be appreciated for the many, many hours they volunteered during the 2010-2011 academic year.

For more information about how you can become involved in the Community Service Programs at CELTS, please contact Heather Schill, Assistant Director for Community Service at 859-985-3804 or heather_schill@berea.edu .

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]]> http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/05/celts-community-service-programs-honor-volunteers/feed/ 0 Students Present Workshop at National Service Conference http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/04/students-present-workshop-at-national-service-conference/ http://www.berea.edu/celts/2011/04/students-present-workshop-at-national-service-conference/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:50:52 +0000 James McWhorter http://www.berea.edu/celts/?p=189 Continue reading →]]> On Saturday, April 2nd, CELTS student workers presented a workshop at the 2011 IMPACT Conference in DeLand, Florida at Stetson University. IMPACT is a national conference focusing on service, social justice and advocacy where hundreds of college students, staff, and representatives of nonprofit organizations gather from across the nation.

At the conference, workshops and speakers address issues such as hunger and homelessness, climate change, community economic development, health and global topics. Berea students Corey Lewis, Gary Zornes, and Lilly Belanger presented a workshop entitled “Step by Step: Students Leading Students in Service” where they discussed the structure of CELTS, demonstrated how student leaders interact with workers and volunteers, and played interactive networking games with their audience.

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